Re:Thunderbird 91.0
by 542458 on Thursday August 12, 2021 @07:52AM
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The word fa***t predates it’s use as a slur for homosexuals, but I don’t think anybody reasonable would argue that it’s not commonly perceived as an offensive term. These are obviously different degrees of subjective “offensiveness”, but my point is that people don’t sit down and work out the etymology before deciding if something makes them feel bad.
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Re:Thunderbird 91.0
by ajsnigrutin on Thursday August 12, 2021 @10:16AM
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Snowflake is an insulting term for overly sensitive SJWs... but it's also a word for an actual snowflake. No matter how offensive it is to someone, we still need a word for literal snowflakes falling from the clouds.
It's also used to describe a shape. For example, a "snowflake" schema.
Re:Thunderbird 91.0
by peoplefromibiza on Thursday August 12, 2021 @08:07AM
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master has never been a slur, it was never meant to mean insult, it is an honorific title.
A "glass masters of Murano" makes beautiful art with glass, because he's a master in that craft.
Doesn't matter if the word has been distorted to mean something bad for a brief period of human history.
Slave is the offending word, not master.
We should have master branch or master database, but secondary branch and secondary database, instead of "slave" ones.